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Imagine That Movie Poster With Eddie Murphy By Hunter Stephenson/March 15, 2009 11:18 am EST On last night’s SNL, alum and host Tracy Morgan played a fictional off-off-Hollywood producer promoting a kids movie entitled Rocket Dog. Pathologically fluent in showbiz hustle, Morgan’s would-be maven lobbed impossibly straight answers to questions involving the countless doggie (and human) deaths that occurred during production. Nor was it of much concern that his feature film only clocked in at 38-minutes, 10-minutes of which were allotted to a fuzzy “TV playing Bravehart....

Indiana Jones And The Case Of The Disappearing Guns And American Flag By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 15, 2008 12:59 pm EST Someone in the CHUD message boards compared the American and International version of the movie trailer for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Agent of Chaos discovered that a bunch of russian soldiers with guns had been removed from the American version. Check out the photo above. I’m pretty sure that this change was probably the result of an MPAA request....

Johnny Depp Cast In Burton’s Alice, The Lone Ranger And Pirates Of The Caribbean 4 By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 24, 2008 4:54 pm EST I just spent the last six and a half hours in the Kodak Theater in Hollywood watching Disney’s big keynote event. So the next few stories will be about the big announcements that came out of the presentation. Johnny Depp has been cast in the upcoming Jerry Bruckheimer produced adaptation of the classic old-time radio and early television show The Lone Ranger created by George W....

Kirsten Dunst Needs To Learn That EVERYONE Is Replaceable By Peter Sciretta/April 17, 2007 11:19 am EST It’s a lesson that everyone learns when they enter the job world. They usually learn the lesson at their first retail job, like I did. Everyone is replaceable. Someone else is very capable of doing your job. People refuse to believe this is still true when you get up to the top. But look at what’s going on at Viacom recently....

Knight Rider Teaser Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 25, 2007 10:23 pm EST A teaser trailers for for Steve Shill’s backdoor pilot… errr I mean TV Movie remake/reboot Knight Rider have started to run on NBC. Yes, it is a slow news day week. Watch the first teaser after the jump. And no, I’m not all too interested, although everyone does get just a tad excited about ideas which let you revisit your childhood....

More On RZA’s The Man With The Iron Fist By Peter Sciretta/July 6, 2008 11:04 pm EST Last week Hunter found a small mention of martial arts film called The Man with the Iron Fist, which RZA is supposedly developing with Eli Roth. CHUD emailed the Hostel director and was able to get the full scoop: “He has been studying directing with Tarantino for years, and he’s really ready to get behind the camera,” Roth said adding that RZA is “ready to add his own unique style and vision to the world of film....

New I Am Legend Movie Poster By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 11, 2007 11:43 am EST Warner Bros has released a new poster for the big screen adaptation of I Am Legend starring Will Smith. This is one of the films I’m really looking forward to this holiday season. If you haven’t seen the movie trailer released in June, click here to watch it now. The middle of the poster features very small text that reads “Is there anybody out there....

Outrage Teaser Trailer: First Footage From Takeshi Kitano’s Gangster Return By Russ Fischer/Jan. 29, 2010 2:42 pm EST Subtitle this one ‘12 Angry Gangsters’. Back in December I was excited to report that Japanese writer/actor/director Takeshi Kitano was already well into post-production on his new film Outrage. This is his return to gangster pictures after a string of films that saw him step away from the genre that brought him international acclaim....

Paramount Nabs Shane Salerno’s ‘Super Repo Men’ Script By Russ Fischer/June 29, 2009 10:52 am EST After the first Transformers reviews started coming in, some speculated that it would be a bad weekend for Paramount. But Revenge of the Fallen did amazing business, and now, according to THR, new Film Group president Adam Goodman has started to buy. First up is an untitled pitch by Shane Salerno, about “super repo men who reclaim high-end jets and boats from rich but delinquent (and often hostile) clientele....

By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 11, 2008 12:09 pm EST Roger Ebert was attacked during a screening of Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire on Saturday at the Toronto Film Festival by… New York Post critic Lou Lumenick?! According to the New York Daily News, soon after the film started “a man in the audience started yelling, ‘Don’t touch me!’ People looked around and shrugged. Ten minutes later, the voice yells again, ‘I said don’t touch me!...

Star Trek Exceeds Expectations, Breaks IMAX Records By Peter Sciretta/May 11, 2009 6:51 pm EST JJ Abrams’ Star Trek exceeded the Sunday morning predictions, grossing $3 million more than expected. The Mother’s Day numbers elevated the film’s opening weekend box office to $79.2 million. Vice-Chairman of Paramount Pictures Rob Moore says that “The spike over our initial estimates on Mother’s Day demonstrates that the combination of strong reviews and solid word-of-mouth contributed to better than anticipated attendance by families yesterday, confirming our belief that ‘Star Trek’ has a broad, multi-generational appeal....

Terminator Salvation Teaser Poster And Comic Con Panel Footage By Peter Sciretta/July 29, 2008 11:26 am EST IMPAwards has the first official teaser poster for Terminator Salvation. Meanwhile, TrailerAddict has the complete video of McG’s Termianator Salvation panel from this weekend’s Comic Con. No, it unfortunately doesn’t include the awesome footage that was shown… but it does contain most everything else. If you’re at all interested in this project, I highly recommend you watch the video to hear McG speak about his intentions....

The Wackness: Nine Photos By Peter Sciretta/April 9, 2008 2:37 pm EST Cinematical has premiered two new images from Jonathan Levine’s The Wackness, one of our favorite films os 2008 so far. Which reminded me that we’ve never posted the production photos which were released at the Sundance Film Festival. You can check out those photos after the jump. The Wackness won the audience award at the Sundance Film Festival, and was quickly snapped up by Sony Pictures Classics who plan to release the film in New York and Los Angeles on July 3rd (I’ve seen the tagline “The 4th of July is gonna be WACK”, which just goes to show you how lame SPC’s marketing department is)....

VOTD: Downfall Of Universal Studios By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 19, 2008 12:00 am EST Downfall of Universal Studios The Pitch: Following the great backlot fire, Hitler reassesses the current situation at Universal Studios in this re-subtitled scene from Downfall. Watch More Cool Videos Here! Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film showcasing geekarific video creations. Have a video we should be feature on VOTD? E-Mail us at orfilms@gmail.com. via: Anne Thompson...

VOTD: Film Junkie By Peter Sciretta/June 16, 2008 12:01 am EST Film Junkie by Tribeca Film FestivalThe Pitch: Are You A Film Junkie? These series of Film Junkie spots were created for the Tribeca Film Festical by Scott Vincent. More after the jump. Thanks to /Film reader Kinomozg for the tip. Watch More Cool Videos Here! Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film showcasing geekarific video creations. Have a video we should be feature on VOTD?...

Zhang Yimou Remaking The Coen Bothers’ Blood Simple? By Brendon Connelly/April 30, 2009 10:59 am EST Variety have announced a new project from Zhang Yimou, director of Hero and House of Flying Daggers. They call it Amazing Tales – Three Guns and describe it as having two separate parts, one a thriller and the other a comedy. It’s hard to not suspect this is the result of a bad translation and simply, the film is to be a comedy-thriller or, as we might say, one part comedy, one part thriller, just mixed parts....

2008 British Academy Film And Television Awards Winners By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 8, 2009 2:32 pm EST /Film reader Jordan (JordanFRAV) has e-mailed us with the complete list of winners from the British Academy Film And Television Awards. Slumdog Millionaire cleaned-up, winning 7 Awards. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button took home 3 Awards. Check out the full list of award winners after the jump. Academy Fellowship: Terry GilliamBest Picture: Slumdog Millionaire – Danny BoyleBest Director (David Lean Award): Danny Boyle – Slumdog MillionaireLeading Actor: Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler Mickey’s acceptance speech was great, one highlight was: “Thanks to Marisa Tomei for constantly taking her clothes off on-screen…I enjoyed looking at her....

Are Ridley And Tony Scott Really Working On A Blade Runner Prequel? By Brendon Connelly/June 4, 2009 3:40 pm EST Today, Ridley Scott announced a new sci-fi webseries from his RSA Films commercial company, created in conjunction with his brother Tony and nephew Luke. Purefold is to be a series of 5-10 minute online videos, laden with product placement and tinged with Phillip K.Dick-like sci-fi themes, concepts and questions. Already, I’ve seen reports pitching it as a kind of Blade Runner prequel where, in fact, it is nothing of the sort....

Bad Movie Trailers: Uwe Boll’s Postal By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 30, 2007 9:55 am EST Uwe Boll is known for creating some of the worst movies of all time out of video game adaptations (Alone in the Dark, BloodRayne, House of the Dead). We now have a look at the first trailer for Boll’s latest: POSTAL. Rumor has it that Gary Coleman was offered to reprise the role he played in the video game but turned down the offer....

Chinese Artist Sues Kung Fu Panda Creators By David Chen/July 18, 2008 2:57 pm EST According to Shanghai Daily, as well as dozens of other sites, conceptual artist Zhao Bandi has filed a lawsuit against Dreamworks and Paramount Pictures for the offensive grotesqueries depicted in Kung Fu Panda, asking not for monetary compenstation but merely an apology from the film’s producers. Even more shockingly, the Beijing Chaoyang District People’s Court is allowing the case to proceed....